Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-05-31
Dakota CONVERSATIONS
Dodge & Son are building q three
story and basement brick hotel at Red

Dodge & Son are building q three
story and basement brick hotel at Red
field.
Grading on the motor line between
Watertown and Lake Kampeska is in
progress.
Geo. Bartlett, city marshal at Mill
bank, dropped dead IN the streets Fri
day afternoon. His complaint was heart
disease.
The Manitoba and Northern Pacific
announces reduced rates IN horses enter
ing for the June races at Grand Forks
and excursion rates for visitors.
The Pierre packing company will be-
gin the erection Of q commodious two
story brick packing house next week, to
be completed by December LIST.
The corner stone OF the Dakota Con.
gregational college at Redfeld will be
laid July 4, and the building will be
completed SO as to open in September.
Hughes county farmers are hopeful
over crop prospects. There is o good
supply of moisture and grass ia farther
advanced than usual at this season OF
the year.
Forty acres have been purchased in
the southern part of WATERFOWL by Gen.
eral Passenger Agent Boyd and Messrs.
Post, Whitaker and Thomas, all OF the
Minneapolis s. st. Louis railroad. The
land is being plated,
The Catholic cemetery at jamestown
has been abandoned, and the trustees OF
st. James parish have just completed
plating the sitesf for their rev one, which
which will be connecrated with more
than usual ceremony June 9Th.
A stock company is building a cream
cry in Redheld which will receive the
patronage of dairy farmers within a ra-
dius of twenty miles. a commodious
cold storage building is also being con.
structed. The plant will cost Sc, 900.
The Dakota Emmner telephone COM
pany, whose principal Office is in Red.
field, is preparing TO put in a local ex.
change The company will at an early
day connect that city with Watertown,
Huron, Aberdeen and intermediate
points.
Farther information in regard to the
extension by Christian & 90. of Mime
apolis of their Dakota elevator system is
to the effect that sites have already been
selected at the principal points on the
main line of the Northern Pacific and at
some places on the branches.
f, w. Comfort, ex-sherif, has returned
TO Pierre. He has been upon The Mani
toba extension beyond Fort Buford. He
sports the creates rush he has ever e
"a railroad building, and that part OF the
forces are to return to Aberdeen within
sineiy lays, probably to grade on the
Pierre extension.
Valley City claims the greatest prodigy
III music in the northwest, or anywhere
else for that matter. Il is Blanche
Ramer, the tour-year.old daughter OF E,
!. Kramer. She plays on the organ OF
piano strictly by note, and reads the
notes with surprising rapidity and &C.
curacy and always counts her own time
when playing.
Several important zeal estate transfers
have been recently made at Aberdeen.
T3e largest is that of o. Fl. Prior to N.
r.. Dare. of Minneapolis, and covers all
the unplatsed lands owned by Mr.. Prior
III that city. Some of the land on the
north side is valuable for railroad pur-
poses and there is a belief that the deal
is mlde in the interests of the aberdeen,
BisnarcNk & Northwestern railway.
Deputy Sheriff UowIey and Detective
Broderyiek of Milwaukee have arrested
Frederick Semi, who broke open a car
at Bowdle, Edmunds county, on April
9th and stole q quantity Of merchandise
They found all the goods stolen at that
tin besides goods stolen from Ipswioh
last July. Semi's father escaped the